APUSH Vocab

_____________________1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Roanoke Island

• West Virginia

• New Amsterdam

________________________was a union of several New England colonies formed by King James II of England in 1686 and was part of a larger plan to tighten British administration of the colonies

• Dominion of New England

• Charleston

• Confederate States of America

• Cuba

________________________1649 granted religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland. Led to characteristics later seen in the Constitution

• Act of Toleration

• Navigation Act

• The Stamp Act

• Mayflower Compact

_________________________was a religious revolution, during the 16th century. It ended the supremacy of the Catholic Church and resulted in the establishment of the Protestant Churches. Martin Luther and John Calvin were influential in the Protestant Revolution.

• Protestant Reformation

• Quaker Experiment

• King Philip's War

• World War 2

What does "NULLIFY" mean?

• To declare a law invalid

• To ignore a law

• To obey a law

• To argue against a law

________________________A document given to the founders of a colony by the monarch that allows for special privileges and establishes a general relationship of one of three types

• Charter

• Mayflower Compact

• Hammurabi's Code

• Hogwarts A History

were English Protestant religious reformers in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England of what they considered to be remnants of Roman Catholic practices and beliefs. Many Puritans emigrated to the American colonies, particularly in New England, to establish religiously and morally strict communities based on their interpretation of the Bible.

• Shakers

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Muffin Makers

Labor contract in which a person agreed to work for a landowner for 4-7 years in order to receive safe passage from Europe to Colonial America.

• Traingular Trade

• Headright System

• Indentured Servitude

• Half-Way Covenant

Virginia House of Burgesses was the first _______ in the New World?

• permanent settlement

• monarchy

• representative assembly

• none of these answers

This 1765 act required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used, including newspapers, legal documents, and licenses.

• A) Stamp Act

• B) Sugar Act

• C) Tea Act

• D) Quartering Act